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Those are a collection of deep brain regions that regulate movement, through a neurochemical called dopamine.
Although most people think of dopamine as the "happy" chemical of the brain, the dopamine-containing neurons in the basal ganglia die off in Parkinson's disease, that's what causes it.
On a more microscale, depression is associated with a few things: the abnormal transmission or depletion of certain neurotransmitters, especially serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, blunted circadian rhythms, or specific changes in the REM and slow-wave parts of your sleep cycle, and hormone abnormalities, such as high cortisol and deregulation of thyroid hormones.
That's because cytokines and prostaglandin can reach even higher structures in your brain, disrupting the activity of neurotransmitters, like glutamate, endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine.
The complex combinations of compounds in food can stimulate brain cells to release mood-altering norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin.
I study the biology of personality, and I've come to believe that we've evolved four very broad styles of thinking and behaving, linked with the dopamine, serotonin, testosterone and estrogen systems.
The major currency of our reward system is dopamine, an important chemical or neurotransmitter.
There are many dopamine receptors in the forebrain, but they're not evenly distributed.
Drugs like alcohol, nicotine, or heroin send dopamine into overdrive, leading some people to constantly seek that high, in other words, to be addicted.
Sugar also causes dopamine to be released, though not as violently as drugs.
You do, and dopamine levels spike in the reward system hot spots.
But if you eat that same dish many days in a row, dopamine levels will spike less and less, eventually leveling out.
And that's why the dopamine levels off when a food becomes boring.
But if you eat too much, the dopamine response does not level out.
This is attributed to the overabundance of a neurotransmitter called dopamine.
Other frequently used medications include antipsychotics, which alter the effects of dopamine, and electroconvulsive therapy, which works like a carefully controlled seizure in the brain, is sometimes used as an emergency treatment.
And dopamine is generated, which gives us a little high and it kills pain.
We found activity in some cells called the A10 cells, cells that actually make dopamine, a natural stimulant, and spray it to many brain regions.
And I have concocted a questionnaire to see to what degree you express dopamine, serotonin, estrogen and testosterone.
Scientists have found that music causes our brains to release a natural painkiller known as oxytocin and a feel-good chemical, dopamine.
One is the reward system, and that's fed by the chemical dopamine.
And over the past 35 years, I've studied behavior on the basis of everything from genes through neurotransmitters, dopamine, things like that, all the way through circuit analysis.
L-DOPA's a drug, as you know, given for treating Parkinson's disease, which is related to a decrease in dopamine.
L-DOPA increases dopamine.
An increase of dopamine caused subjects to see more patterns than those that did not receive the dopamine.
That is, you decrease the amount of dopamine, and their tendency to see patterns like that decreases.
They increase the amount of dopamine.
So perhaps more dopamine is related to more creativity.
As you probably know, the neurotransmitter associated with learning is called dopamine.
Some evidence suggests that there is a link between the level of dopamine, addiction, and greedy behavior.
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